StaffSoldiers march in last year’s Veterans Day Parade in downtown Huntsville. HUNTSVILLE, AL. — Huntsville’s Veterans Day Parade starts this morning at 11 a.m. The parade begins at Clinton Avenue in front of the U.S. Post Office, takes a right at Monroe Street past the Von Braun Center, then winds around downtown via Williams Avenue, [...]
Missile Defense Agency work in Huntsville and Army helicopter programs at Redstone Arsenal are among defense programs the U.S House approved for $487.7 billion in a spending bill this week. The Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act passed Wednesday provides defense programs with $28.4 billion more than 2008 funding, said U.S. Rep. Bud [...]
The U.S. House has passed a bill that includes more than $8.7 billion to continue implementing the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure decision, a $667 million increase from 2008, according to U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer, D-Huntsville. In the 2005 BRAC plan, the Army Materiel Command, Security Assistance Command will move from to Redstone Arsenal from [...]
LITTLE ROCK — Maudie White Hopkins did what she had to do as a young girl living a hard-scrabble life in the Ozarks during the Depression. In a family of 10 children, she did laundry and cleaned house for an elderly Confederate veteran in Baxter County whose wife had died years earlier. When he offered [...]
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested early Wednesday, the Air Force said. The ICBM was launched at 1:01 a.m. and its three unarmed re-entry vehicles traveled about 4,220 miles over the Pacific Ocean to targets near the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, an Air [...]
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